Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-12
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s,Toyipg the police and militia, who were
derided IS their special champions. The
period Of confusion developing from the
mammoth strikes Of the first of May,
1886. was dehaitely announced months
before SIS the time when tne fearful bolt
should fall. P.tiiess az WAS this pro-
gramme and difficult SIS 8 belief is inst it
ever was contemplated by men, the facts
SIS stated were abundSutlys proven IN
court.
The diaholiam Bss fully shared in by
women. Especially SO was this the case
in the
FANTASTIC PUBLIC DEMONSTRATIONS
like J6e red flag professions of rsgamuf-
frs with torches that attempted a. night
20 uarer the magG.ficsnt new Bosrd Of
Trade 7hen the dedication festivities Of
the institution had for the time being
transformed the huge building into q
scene Of social bTilliarce without s. local
precedent. The Tepulsive, Disappearing
intrUders of both sexes were steTnly forced
back 81 the muZZles OF three dozen police
Tevoivers. Ia aft2irs ike this the dusky
wife u Parsons and other no less desper-
ate women seemed in their proper ele-
ment. OF the msny queer outbreaks pre-
cedirg the Hsymsrket tragedy, the most
startling al the time, perhaps, was the
parade Thanksgiving Day, when in ridi-
cule of President Cleveland's proclama-
ton nearly thousand uncouth men and
women Of the slum5, headed by banners
Of black and red, trsversed the choice
residence avenues, wildly yelling and
scGffing ST the we'll dressed people who
crowded TO the windows, anxious to
learn the cause of tumut.
IL tod
reason 10 ignore all ebuilitions OF the
mob. AS q result Of this
OFFICIAL INDIFFERENCE,
when the time came ct last for the eight
hour labor disturbances and the simults
neous Inauguration of the secretly
cherished revolution" the anarchists
were power indeed, and the police were
ignorant CT danger. 1t is true that the
Chicago papers contained timely intima-
tons Of the plots, but owing to the peculiar
attitude of the high municipal authori-
ties, the articles were treated IS rank sen
sationslism.
Just ore day before the time setfor the
strikes Louis LiDgg, the bomb maker,
slipped into his lodgings q hesyy, suspi-
cious-Iooking box, three feet IN length.
The box contained large invoice Of
dynamite. It's delivery at L!ngg's lodg
ings was the first immediate preparation
for
THE BLOODY RESULT
OF FIVE days later. For many weeks pre-
yiCus Lingg had been purchasing and eX-
perimentIng with dynamite as the paid
agent Of one of the seven international
"groups," but subsequent events showed
beyond any reasonable doubt that this
ho hat
was heard round the world. The bomb,
with fifty others manufactured by LiD2g
under the auspices OF the International
and Of which the celebrated defendants
were not members simply but leaders.
Mkt day, May l, the eigbt-hour strikes
began il earnest, and by nightfan when
the first Intelligent estimates were OBJ
tainsbie, $4,000 men walked the streets
IDLE. Promptly in the morning, Sunday,
when the churches throughout the city
were r6sounding With swelling hosanpas,
the stuff little Bohemian hall On Emms
street vas crowded with members CT
THE LEHR AND WEIR vEREIN,
5a inner circle of the omnipresent Inter
national. Detailed plans for the near-st-
bznd conflict with the police were sub
mitIed by Editor Engel and listened to
by Spies Lieutenant, Fischer. These
plsns we're the ones followed almost to the
letter at the Haymarket, but the decision
to Go 50 was not reached st this meeting,
Instead it YVES determined to take sction
st another gathering Of the Lehr and
W5hr in large hall and more central To-
cation, to be assembled within twenty
four hours. This was to be in Greif's
Hall, Monday night, May 3.
The Arbeiter Zeitung, OF which Spies
and SChwab were the editors and mana
gers. called together the armed men who
were TO engage in this
SPECIFIC COMPACT TO MURDER.
The Sunday evening edition, published
4 few hours sitter the Bohemisn Hall meet
ing, contained this cEbalistic legend:
i'Y-Komme Montag Abend." (Y-Come
Monday night.) This was the summons TO
the armed sections to meet, as they did,
Monday night at Grief's. The call was
published again Monday afternoon, indi-
eating the importance of the matters to
come before the meeting. The Sunday
issue of the Arbeiter had a significant
article, urging "quick and immediate
action" adding: "By Monday or Tues
daY the conflict must have reached ito
highest intensity, else success will then
be doubtful" Almost before the ink on
this could dry, Spies was st the Sunday
afternoon meeting OF the Central Labor
Union, arranging TO have himself dis
patched to McCormick's factory the fol-
lowing day to address the thousands OF
strikers out along the old Black road.
From the top of freight car, on the
prairie near McCormick's, next afternoon
-Monday-Spies belched into the ears OF
II, 900 excited strikers, mostly foreigners,
the hottest harSngue ever uttered by him
in public. He spoke in the German Ian
gusge, of which he is more master even
than of English. The effect Of his words
WIS like magic.
ION To MCCORMICK
was the CRY. The maddened horde, urged
forward by Spies, Lingg and other daring
anarchists present, rushed at the great
factory like so msny wild beasts. They
had caught up powders and clubs on the
way, and in an instant the thousand win
doWs Of the factory were being shivered
in countless fragments. Then it was that
patrol-wagons, loaded with police, the
horses covered With foam, dashed through
the crowd from behind, It is admitted
ba Tnnh- MANY